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‘Casa De Carne’: My Short Film That Explores A Restaurant Where Customers Have To Kill Their Own Food

My job as a filmmaker is to raise questions and let people come to their own conclusions.

That’s why I wrote, directed, and edited the short PSA ‘Casa de Carne’ – a film about hard choices and hidden truths. It was produced by the non-profit organization Last Chance for Animals (LCA). Set in a not-so-distant and dark future, three friends must slaughter the animals they order for dinner at a high-end restaurant. It won first place at the 2019 Animal Film Festival.

I’d like this film to make people think and question their everyday reality. Now more than ever, we need stories that expand our circle of empathy and allow us to see the world through a more compassionate lens. It’s easy to use our differences as starting points for conflict: different race, different religion, different country… different species. And yet, we’re all sharing this planet. Our similarities far outweigh our differences.

What do you think ?

Exactly what the world needs, yet another vegan/vegan promotor that has no clue about how an animal is slaughtered. If you want to be taken seriously, you are actually going to have to work by getting your facts straight. And yes, I can slaughter animals, I do that all of the time as I keep poultry. Everyone can, even you, you just need to be hungry enough.

Exactly, and animals wouldn't think about your feelings before they killed you, if you fall in a pig den, the pig is going to eat you, they are omnivores! Vegans and vegetarians are deluded, they haven't gone through a famine, that's when their beliefs would be truly tested!

Name me a vegan or vegetarian who says they wouldn't eat meat if they were starving. I'm vegetarian and you're goddamn right if I was going to die of starvation I'd eat a pig. So? Just because we'd eat one if we absolutely had to doesn't mean we think it's cool to kill all the fucking time just because you like the taste of something. Those are two totally separate things.

Lingon, "Full Name I know several. Veggie4every1 for example". Just like there are no atheists in foxholes, I guarantee you that animal would look really tempting if Veggie4every1 was literally dying from hunger. Better yet, their child was about to starve. Not a chance they'd choose the life of an animal over their own child.

I love animals tremendously... But it seems the world is forgetting that humans are animals too. Omnivores in fact. Who need meat. Yes, not just like it, we need it. Let's not be stupid about it, and kill our food as painfully as possible, but yeah, just like wolves, and hawks, we eat meat too. Stop demonizing humanity...

If you mean cheating the universe and biology is by not having jobs or things that demand fisical strenght. Most of them have a cedentary lifestyle wich it doesnt demand alot of creatine or proteine to upkeep the muscles.

Ok well let me ask you this then, if all of humanity stopped eating animals, what do you suppose would happen? All the animals would just live happily ever after? No. Over population, increased diseases, etc. I suppose you're right, some of us could go completely vegetarian and live off of only vegetables if we get enough sources of protein from other vegetarian substances. But that's not going to make animals any happier. The animals we eat were bred to be slaughtered. Some of them may have been raised cruelly, which is truly unfortunate, but most of them live decent lives until the point they are served on a plate. And also, can I ask a second question? Your comment seems to promote the idea of vegetarians as a kinder lifestyle. But what gives the plants less right to live than animals? Plants are living creatures too.

Some can live perfectly fine without it, others don't. Just like some vegans had to go back to being vegetarian due to heath reasons, while others thrive. The people who are so gung ho about everyone becoming vegetarian should maybe look for answers about that and what to do with the animals in question instead of trying to shame and/or bully others to their views.

I'm not a vegan personally but I have respect for those who choose that lifestyle. I don't eat meat because I cannot digest it very well. I couldn't bring myself to kill an animal unless I was in a situation where I was going to starve to death. When you're in those circumstances you'd be surprised what you will do to live though. I come from a family who hunts also. I honestly think having the skills to survive off the land is a good thing though.

Exactly what the world needs, yet another vegan/vegan promotor that has no clue about how an animal is slaughtered. If you want to be taken seriously, you are actually going to have to work by getting your facts straight. And yes, I can slaughter animals, I do that all of the time as I keep poultry. Everyone can, even you, you just need to be hungry enough.

Exactly, and animals wouldn't think about your feelings before they killed you, if you fall in a pig den, the pig is going to eat you, they are omnivores! Vegans and vegetarians are deluded, they haven't gone through a famine, that's when their beliefs would be truly tested!

Name me a vegan or vegetarian who says they wouldn't eat meat if they were starving. I'm vegetarian and you're goddamn right if I was going to die of starvation I'd eat a pig. So? Just because we'd eat one if we absolutely had to doesn't mean we think it's cool to kill all the fucking time just because you like the taste of something. Those are two totally separate things.

Lingon, "Full Name I know several. Veggie4every1 for example". Just like there are no atheists in foxholes, I guarantee you that animal would look really tempting if Veggie4every1 was literally dying from hunger. Better yet, their child was about to starve. Not a chance they'd choose the life of an animal over their own child.

I love animals tremendously... But it seems the world is forgetting that humans are animals too. Omnivores in fact. Who need meat. Yes, not just like it, we need it. Let's not be stupid about it, and kill our food as painfully as possible, but yeah, just like wolves, and hawks, we eat meat too. Stop demonizing humanity...

If you mean cheating the universe and biology is by not having jobs or things that demand fisical strenght. Most of them have a cedentary lifestyle wich it doesnt demand alot of creatine or proteine to upkeep the muscles.

Ok well let me ask you this then, if all of humanity stopped eating animals, what do you suppose would happen? All the animals would just live happily ever after? No. Over population, increased diseases, etc. I suppose you're right, some of us could go completely vegetarian and live off of only vegetables if we get enough sources of protein from other vegetarian substances. But that's not going to make animals any happier. The animals we eat were bred to be slaughtered. Some of them may have been raised cruelly, which is truly unfortunate, but most of them live decent lives until the point they are served on a plate. And also, can I ask a second question? Your comment seems to promote the idea of vegetarians as a kinder lifestyle. But what gives the plants less right to live than animals? Plants are living creatures too.

Some can live perfectly fine without it, others don't. Just like some vegans had to go back to being vegetarian due to heath reasons, while others thrive. The people who are so gung ho about everyone becoming vegetarian should maybe look for answers about that and what to do with the animals in question instead of trying to shame and/or bully others to their views.

I'm not a vegan personally but I have respect for those who choose that lifestyle. I don't eat meat because I cannot digest it very well. I couldn't bring myself to kill an animal unless I was in a situation where I was going to starve to death. When you're in those circumstances you'd be surprised what you will do to live though. I come from a family who hunts also. I honestly think having the skills to survive off the land is a good thing though.